When we do a service well if people label us as proud what can we do?

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so if you are doing some service and that maybe attracts the wrong kind of attention people start you know calling us proud or people start becoming envious or because of whatever kind of reason if you feel that I should not do this service so the important thing is we have to connect with Krishna now sometimes some services may be very high profile and while doing those services we may attract bad kind of negative kind of attention from others then we can continue to do service but not do it in such a high profile you know that means I will continue singing for Krishna but maybe when there are big festivals I will choose not to sing but it’s not that I have to give up singing for that because if that is the talent which I have been given I have to use it but different people have different conceptions and we we can’t be controlled by their conceptions entirely at the same time we have to be aware of them we have to be cognizant this is how people are thinking then we can make sure that people we don’t aggravate people’s misunderstanding so if people are thinking I am proud because I am doing this then what do I do? maybe I can do some other services which are seen as humble maybe I can clean the temple, maybe I can serve prasadam so if we are aware of how people are perceiving us we can take some steps to correct those perceptions but that doesn’t mean I have to give up my service to continue our service and we also work to change their perception as much as possible and over a period of time people see it’s ultimately how we conduct ourselves if we are always filled with ourselves there is a saying in English it is possible to be so filled with oneself as to be empty so you know sometimes you meet some people and they just can’t talk about anything except themselves afterwards it just becomes so pointless, what is this? you don’t feel like meeting those people also so they are empty so if somebody is like that then it’s very obvious that the pride has come to them but if you are not becoming like that when we meet others, we talk about them, we talk about their service we talk about their well-being, we talk about Krishna then over a period of time that perception can be corrected we should not give up a service just because of negative perception by others we can adjust some other things by which we can do our part in correcting that perception